Many Shluchim are struggling to fill Hebrew School registration. JabMedia released a short film produced by Mendy Pellin to help break the ice on the subject.
Rabbi Mendel Dubov has been appointed as the new spiritual leader of the Chabad Jewish Center of Sussex County. Rabbi Dubov and his wife Chava Dubov will head all educational, social, charitable and religious services provided by the Jewish Center.
There are probably not many rabbis helping to provide cleaner water in Myanmar (Burma) or first-aid training to wildlife rangers in Kenya.
An incident which can be described as nothing short of a miracle occurred in the Shomron community of Itamar on Tuesday. A synagogue ark containing heavy Torah scrolls fell on a baby and the baby survived.
A great deal has been researched, written and documented concerning the Jews of Russia during the last century of their collective experience, throughout the Soviet era and beyond. Most attention is understandably devoted to the Jewries of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and western regions (known in the Czarist era as the Pale of Settlement). Relatively little is said, however, about Jews living further to the east, in central Siberia. Having just returned from a summer residence in Siberia’s capital, Novosibirsk, the third largest city in Russia, I was surprised to find a vibrant Jewish community center that I was privileged to address, and a new synagogue on the rise. From several members of the community, including the director of the JCC, I was able to piece together their story.
The difference between ice-hockey athletes of today and those of yore, in a word, is helmets.
In the 1970’s, fans would be hankered to find an NHL player wearing a skullcap on the ice, especially if said player was not injured.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: A video clip from 6 of Tishrei, 5742 (October 4, 1981), where the Chassidim sing a lively Niggun as the Rebbe encourages them.
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the tragic and very untimely passing of Habochur Eli Ottenstein, 17.
Eli is survived by his parents Yonathan and Chana Ottenstein as well as his siblings.
Continuing season two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the ninth class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week’s topic, “The Rebbe on the Causes of the Holocaust – Part 1”.
Yeshivas Menachem Mendel Lubavitch of Monsey held a bruchim haboim farbrengen last night at Tzemach Tzedek to welcome the new Shluchim who have joined the Yeshiva this year.
August came and went with some unexpected surprises down the shore — an earthquake, a hurricane and, maybe equally as groundbreaking, a glatt-kosher deli.
Surveillance cameras at the Kotel captured a fathers brutal attack on his own daughter. The video, which is painful and difficult to watch, show the father strike his daughter knocking her to the ground where he continued hitting her.
POSTVILLE, IA [CHI] — Gabay Menahem, a former businessman and property owner here, has received $450,000 to settle discrimination and business interference lawsuits filed in state and federal court against the City of Postville, the city clerk and two members of the city council.
Eyal and Goldie (nee Lakein) Bension
474 Malbone St Apt 2 [between Clove Rd and New York Ave]
Yossi and Chaya Blachman
682 Lefferts Ave [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Shimon and Leah (nee Fellig) Rivkin
367 Crown St [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Nisson Moshe and Chani (nee Zalmanov) Vaisfiche
531 Crown St [between Albany and Kingston Ave]
Eli and Faigie Dinerman
555 Crown St, Apt 1D [between Albany and Kingston Ave]
Yisroel and Chanie (nee Binyaminson) Altein
612 Montgomery St [between Brooklyn and Kingston Ave]
Ari and Leah (nee Kesselman) Sollish
811 Greenwood Ave NE Atlanta, GA 30306
Uri and Gitty Kogen (Toronto, Ontario)
Menachem and Shoshi Vorchheimer
26 Meadow Street, St Kilda East, Melbourne Australia
Friendship Circle of Cleveland executive director Rabbi Yossi Marozov sits at a table among the cluttered work-in-progress of what will become the teen volunteer organization’s youth lounge.
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